Just for them, and perhaps as a flash of nostalgia for us approaching-crumblidom types, here's the daring duo as they appeared on our screens every week in the mid-late 70s.
Everyone, but everyone, identified with either Starsky or Hutch (or possibly with Huggy Bear, but that's another story). Well the years have rolled by for all of us. I'm no longer an impressionable teenager and dear old S&H are for minority "TV Gold" channels only. The zeitgeist has moved on.
Which brings me to last weekend when Mrs the Millbrooker, Rusty and I headed off once more for Truro and a theatrical treat. Many many years ago, Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky - the one on the jumper) appeared as Perchik in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof. And now he's grown older and has taken on the lead role of Tevye in a touring stage production that came to Cornwall. Yes! Starsky in Cornwall!
Here he is, as Tevye, in a scene with Perchik (Steven Bor).
And so, to the Hall for Cornwall and Rusty's first time at the theatre with yours truly.
Once inside the auditorium, parts of the set were open to view, very impressive it was, too.
Rusty and I made ourselves comfortable in our very-close-to-the-front seats. Or floor, in his case. He's not allowed on seats.
To my mind it was a tremendous production of an old favourite show; I was lucky enough to see Topol playing Tevye back in the 1990s, it was very much his role and it takes a brave man to step into Topol's shoes. Paul Michael Glaser is that man and he's a fine Tevye, supported by a terrific cast. It doesn't really matter how much I try to say "buy a ticket" or "go and see this show", the tour is all-but over; it's currently at Southend then it's heading to Northampton and finally Eastbourne. Tour dates are here.
After the show, we repaired to Betty and MinorEarthQwake's city-centre abode. It was still early - we'd been to a matinee performance. Here's his Rustiness chilling in the flat and then posing in the distance on a footbridge close to his new spending area in a wee park (how appropriate) just outside Betty and MinorEarthQwake's pad.
We stayed overnight, had a delicious meal at Baba on Lemon Street, and the next day headed out along the river's edge for the couple of miles or so to Malpas for a lunchtime pint and another bite to eat. After MinorEarthQwake had generously sacrificed one of his socks to amuse Rusty who didn't have any of his toys with him for the overnight stay.
All of which was much more to Rusty's taste than snoozing the afternoon away underneath the seats in a theatre with an old cop-show star and lots of show tunes.
Until next time.....
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Photos by Mrs the Millbrooker, MinorEarthQwake or me except:
Starsky and Hutch photo nicked from www.duetsblog.com
Fiddler on the Roof photo nicked from scottbirdonline.blogspot.co.uk/
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